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Matrix Software - Astro*Talk
Here is what Astro*Talk had to say about Ken Lay's Sun, Moon and two
closest aspects:
Sun in Aries: Go for it! Do it now and ask questions later, for
you are a born leader, always first and never afraid to go it alone. Your
sense of mission makes for impulsive, sometimes rash (but always brave)
actions. Your motto is: Don't think about it, let's get the show on the
road.
Moon in Aries: You can be impulsively direct when relating to
others, and may seem fierce or harsh. Independent to the point of
loneliness, you don't mind a more Spartan environment than most. You can
get by on little. You have a short fuse, and harsh exchanges are not
uncommon. Others could feel hurt by this.
Saturn Conjunction Uranus: You are rebellious and innovative,
but in a very determined and practical manner. You invent and change
things, but always from the very center or heart, never from the
periphery. You alter and invent at the deepest symbolical or programming
level.
Uranus Trine Neptune: Your insight and vision into what unites
people and into the dreams and mystical regions of our mind is profound.
You have an enchanting way of working and communicating with others in
these matters and with music and the arts. New paths to world or personal
unity are a major interest, and you have a very practical sense of how to
make your dreams real.
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Kepler - Indra
And here's what the Kepler Indra report said about the same chart
factors:
Sun in Aries: You feel yourself to be a natural leader. You are
always looking for the spot at the head of the company or the class. You
are unconcerned with whether or not others follow you on your various
crusades and campaigns. Your basic nature is independent and
instantaneously self-expressive. You are good at sizing up a situation
quickly. Because you are impulsive, others may think of you as thoughtless
or careless. You do often lack patience and tolerance with others. Learn
moderation and life is easier.
Moon in Aries:You have an impelling, immediate approach to life.
Your personality is forceful and your feelings lay close to the surface of
experience in life and are easily stimulated. Your imagination is very
powerful and stays active most of the time. You are independent and can
move forcefully into a new situation and make strides forward on your own.
You are enthusiastic but try to guard against being too self-willed and
strident. Avoid actions that stem from restlessness and you will complete
more of the things you start.
Saturn Conjunct Uranus: You are often caught in some
inner struggle to adopt the new and discard the old. There is an
iconoclastic streak in you that is always trying to compensate and
overcome your fears and frustrations with the way things have always been.
Adjustment is easy on the surface but underneath you experience tension.
You have an inner core of strength that serves you well. Persistence gets
you to your goals.
Saturn Trine Your Neptune:You are creative and have a deep,
inward gentleness. You are able to use existing social structures to
further your vision of a better world. You care about others and are free
of malice. You are a builder and have discipline and patience to get to a
distant goal. Steady, concentrated psychic perceptions of the future
blends comfortably and unassumingly with every aspect of your nature. When
you follow the bedrock of your own inner perceptions and feelings without
any contradictions, success is assured. You have an ability to be on the
cutting edge of any cultural wave. Good dramatic instincts add flavor to
your self expression.
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report.
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Biography
American CEO, former chairman of Enron, which filed for Chapter 11
bankruptcy on December 2, 2001, the biggest bankruptcy in U.S. history.
The Houston, TX corporation was ranked by Fortune as the seventh largest
company in the U.S. in 2001. In November 2001, it had been considered a
stable risk for investors. Nevertheless, there was an undercurrent of
rumors that its much-touted stability was not entirely credible. When the
giant collapsed, billions in stockholder equity evaporated, and many people
lost their entire life savings and retirement security.
However, unknown to the investor, major shareholders and officers had been
quietly selling off millions of dollars of stock for as long as the prior six
months. The ensuing shareholder lawsuit named 29 former and current Enron
executives as defendants, charging that they made $1.1 BILLION by selling
Enron stock between October 1998 and November 2001. If Ken Lay had joined
them, he could have received a "golden parachute" in excess of $25 million,
but he stayed with the beleaguered company to the end, departing in disgrace
in January 2002.
Ken Lay had been one of the founders of Enron in 1985. He became CEO in 1999,
making about $200 million a year in salary, stock and other compensations.
Lay was a pleasant-looking man of average appearance and moderate height,
a bland smile and a receding hairline. The son of a Baptist preacher and
some-time tractor salesman, he came from a family so poor that they were
not always able to celebrate holidays, eating cold-cuts one Thanksgiving.
His dad preached optimism, and Lay always had the credo that "things would
work out." No party-boy, he was president of a dry fraternity at the U. of
Missouri where he was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate in economics. Upon graduation,
he began his career in 1965 as a corporate economist with Exxon Company. He
later earned a PhD in economics from the University of Houston.
After serving as an officer in the U.S. Navy, Lay held the positions of
Technical Assistant to the Commissioner of the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission and Deputy Undersecretary of the U.S. Department of Interior.
Additionally, while in Washington, he was an assistant professor at
George Washington University, teaching graduate courses in micro- and
macro-economic theory and government-business relations.
Lay learned favor-trading and influence peddling in the early '70s as a
federal energy regulator. He was President of Continental Resources Company
(formerly Florida Gas Company) and Executive Vice President of the
Continental Group, the parent company of Continental Resources Company,
before joining Transco Energy Company in May 1981. When energy was
deregulated by the Reagan administration, Lay was already on the playing
field and he took advantage of the new climate by merging Houston Natural
Gas Co. with Nebraska-based Inter-North. His ambitions were to make the
sum of the whole much greater than the sum of the parts. He took the two
small pipeline companies in July 1985 and began a casino of moving everything
around, taking stock positions, hedging and betting. By 2000, Enron had
achieved immense growth.
To attract top-level wheelers and dealers, Lay also undertook to fix up
Houston. One of his favorite phrases is "world class," and he set about
up-scaling the Houston opera, ballet, symphony and museums and adding a
new $250 million ballpark, Enron Field. At the same time he was a champion
fund-raiser for local and national charities, astute about spreading good will
on politicians and power-brokers. Lay wrote checks; Enron got exempted from
various state and local regulations. Between February and October 2001,
he used his $7.5 million revolving credit line with the company, repaying
his loans back to Enron with Enron stock.
Lay had divorced his first wife in 1982 and married Linda, his former
secretary, a month later. They had five kids, David, Mark, Beau, Robyn
and Elizabeth. He and Linda were regulars on the Houston social scene,
friendly with everyone. Together they enjoyed their rich lifestyle,
spending $200,000 on a cruise vacation just a few months before the
company collapsed. Lay admitted "We had realized the American dream,
and were living a very expensive lifestyle, the type of lifestyle
where it is difficult to turn off the spigot."
By 1998, Enron was plumping its stock with well-padded quarterly
reports, as well as creating off-the-books partnerships which made
it virtually impossible to trace their financial status. In January 2001,
Ken turned over the CEO job to Jeff Skilling, a Harvard MBA described as
being as abrasive as Lay is smooth. In August 2001, Skilling abruptly
resigned, citing family reasons. The company was beginning to crack and
slide. The coming collapse was not a surprise to the insiders. On August
14, 2001, Enron employee Sherron Watkins wrote a seven-page memo that
included the statement, "I am incredibly nervous that we will implode
in a wave of accounting scandals." This became the smoking gun in the
investigation of alleged financial chicanery at Enron and its accounting
firm, Arthur Anderson. Both companies were found to shred documents even
after Congress opened what was to become a criminal investigation. The
inevitable series of lawsuits and congressional investigations began on
February 4, 2002.
Protesting his innocence, Kenneth Lay announced on July 7, 2004 that
he had been indicted by a Houston grand jury on charges connected to the
collapse of Enron. Lay turned himself in to authorities the next day and
was charged with 11 criminal counts including bank fraud, share trading
fraud and making false statements. The Securities and Exchange Commission
separately filed civil charges against Lay for securities fraud resulting
in over $90 million in gains from stock sales.
On May 25, 2006, the ex-CEO was convicted of all six conspiracy and fraud
charges in the Enron scandal as well as four counts of bank fraud and making
false statements to banks. While he was awaiting sentencing, he died on
July 5, 2006 of a heart attack. News reports said that an ambulance was
summoned to his vacation home near Aspen, CO at 1:41 AM local time. He was
rushed to Aspen Valley Hospital where at 3:11 AM he was pronounced dead.
Lay was 64 years old.
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